Pope Francis appointed an apostolic visitor on Wednesday for Eritrean Catholics in the United States and Canada. The pope named Father Tesfaldet Tekie Tsada, chaplain of the Eritrean community of Los ...

When my dad immigrated to Seattle from Eritrea, the Eritrean Catholic church became his new community. He goes to mass every Sunday. There, he sings in Tigrinya, his native tongue, and prays to God.

“To go to church is like water for fishes,” said Rev. Solomon Eyob Ghebrezgabiher, the spiritual leader of Saint Mary, another Eastern Orthodox church in south Tel Aviv. “Without religion and church ...

His Holiness Abune Basilios, the 6th Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church, gave a benediction in connection with Christmas.

As the Eritrean government continues to seize and close Catholic healthcare sites throughout the country, the Church has denounced the intimidation used during the nationalization. The government's ...

Several Christians were among a group of prisoners recently released in Eritrea, though seven senior church leaders remain in detention after two decades without charge or trial, a watchdog group has ...

OAKLAND — The schism began the day police officers rushed to the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church expecting to break up a fight. What they found that Sunday morning was a group of priests and church ...

Young Eritrean soldiers are pictured in a file photo in Asmara. Places of worship have become the latest target for the forced roundup of Eritrean teens to serve as soldiers, in what clerics describe ...

NAIROBI, Kenya— Abune Antonios, a confined Eritrean Orthodox Church Patriarch and the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in the Horn of Africa, died on Feb. 9 at the age of 94. He was still ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — An agricultural technical school in Eritrea is the latest to fall under government control, in a string of forced seizures of Catholic schools and hospitals. Church sources said Hagaz ...

When my dad immigrated to Seattle from Eritrea, the Eritrean Catholic church became his new community. He goes to mass every Sunday. There, he sings in Tigrinya, his native tongue, and prays to God.